RISE UP Daniel's fourth beast. (_ See Scofield) - (Daniel 7:26). _ The "ten horns" are explained in (Daniel 7:24); (Revelation 17:12) to be ten kings, and the whole vision is of the last form of Gentile world-power, a confederated ten-kingdom empire covering the sphere of authority of ancient Rom... [ Continue Reading ]
LIKE UNTO A LEOPARD The three animals, leopard, bear, and lion, are found in (Daniel 7:4) as symbols of the empires which preceded Rome, and whose characteristics all entered into the qualities of the Roman empire: Macedonian swiftness of conquest, Persian tenacity of purpose, Babylonish voracity.... [ Continue Reading ]
WOUNDED TO DEATH Fragments of the ancient Roman empire have never ceased to exist as separate kingdoms. It was the imperial form of government which ceased; the one head wounded to death. What we have prophetically in (Revelation 13:3) is the restoration of the imperial form as such, though over a... [ Continue Reading ]
WORLD Kosmos, Summary: In the sense of the present world-system, the ethically bad sense of the word, refers to the "order," "arrangement," under which Satan has organized the world of unbelieving mankind upon his cosmic principle of force, greed, selfishness, ambition, and pleasure. (Matthew 4:8)... [ Continue Reading ]
HE CAUSETH Antichrist; the person is to be distinguished from the "many antichrists" (1 John 2:18) and the "spirit of antichrist" (1 John 4:3) which characterizes all. The supreme mark of all is the denial of the Christian truth of the incarnation of the Logos, the eternal Son in Jesus as the Chris... [ Continue Reading ]